Sentences with phrase «high water table»

Keeping it partly out of the ground also helps deal with high water tables like they have in the Netherlands; you don't want it popping up.

Hamilton's team reports that the perennial system's evapotranspiration did not differ greatly from corn — a finding that contrasts sharply with earlier studies that found particularly high perennial water use in areas with high water tables.

A hydrologist named Chen Xing objected to this policy on the basis that it would lead to water logging and alkalinization of farm land due to a high water table produced by the dams.

Some gardeners, with soils high in clay, or who live in locations with a high water table, actually go to the trouble of creating a scree for drainage.

Bole is one of the towns in Northern Region fortunate to have a high water table that is being pumped through electrical boreholes to the people for many years now.

«The high water table in Apapa requires proper design and adoption of rigid pavement to ensure longevity of our roads,» Eke said.

But Hungary has a high water table compared with the rest of the steppe and floods easily.

The river buried the debris in silt, and after the river changed course, a high water table kept materials from decaying over the millennia.

The terraced grade rises to meet the house, allowing for it to maintain a structured connection with the ground while also sitting above the high water table.

The site has poor drainage and a high water table, so a retention pond has been planned for the low point of the site.

As I report in a story over on Nature News, they found the higher the water table, the more carbon dioxide was given off.

The below - grade ground between the tank and the foundation (sometimes about a seven to ten foot distance depending upon the age of the system) becomes saturated with smelly moisture over time and the excess then leaches downward into the foundation weepers (which in some areas with high water tables are always somewhat full) which then empties into an in - basement sump pit in homes not on municipal sewers.

If you have a high water table or incessant ground vapor, you will have spots of separation.